A family has passed a bread roll down through several generations since 1899.

Leaflets distributed in Baghdad called for a "Day of Resistance" today at the start of a three-day general strike to protest the US occupation of the city a day after fresh anti-American violence left two Iraqis dead.

AMERICAN troops clashed with rioters carrying Saddam Hussein’s picture in Baghdad yesterday and heavy smoke billowed from the mayor’s office in a city west of the capital following a big explosion.